Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Union Catalog of Serials Currently Received in the Libraries of the University of Wisconsin--Madison
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku yōsho mokuroku
Author: Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku. ToshokanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : un
Pages : 584
Book Description
洋書速報
Author: 国立国会図書館(Japan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Author: Federico MarconPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625190X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or "honzogaku." Federico Marcon traces the changing views of the natural environment that accompanied its development by surveying the ideas and practices deployed by "honzogaku" practitioners and by vividly reconstructing the social forces that affected them. These include a burgeoning publishing industry, increased circulation of ideas and books, the spread of literacy, processes of institutionalization in schools and academies, systems of patronage, and networks of cultural circles, all of which helped to shape the study of nature. In this pioneering social history of knowledge in Japan, Marcon shows how scholars developed a sophisticated discipline that was analogous to European natural history but formed independently. He also argues that when contacts with Western scholars, traders, and diplomats intensified in the nineteenth century, the previously dominant paradigm of "honzogaku "slowly succumbed to modern Western natural science not by suppression and substitution, as was previously thought, but by creative adaptation and transformation.
National Union Catalog
Author: Catalogues of the Harvard-Yenching Library: Author
Author: Harvard-Yenching LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : zh-TW
Pages : 744
Book Description
List of Bibliographies in the Hitotsubashi University Library
Author: Tokyo (Japan). Hitotsubashi University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Japanese Language Studies in the Shōwa Period
Author: Joseph Koshimi YamagiwaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese philology
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha
Author: Mikael S. AdolphsonPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824831233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Japan’s monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular culture. Often maligned and criticized for their involvement in politics and other secular matters, they have been seen as figures separate from the larger military class. However, as Mikael Adolphson reveals in his comprehensive and authoritative examination of the social origins of the monastic forces, political conditions, and warfare practices of the Heian (794–1185) and Kamakura (1185–1333) eras, these "monk-warriors"(sôhei) were in reality inseparable from the warrior class. Their negative image, Adolphson argues, is a construct that grew out of artistic sources critical of the established temples from the fourteenth century on. In deconstructing the sôhei image and looking for clues as to the characteristics, role, and meaning of the monastic forces, The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha highlights the importance of historical circumstances; it also points to the fallacies of allowing later, especially modern, notions of religion to exert undue influence on interpretations of the past. It further suggests that, rather than constituting a separate category of violence, religious violence needs to be understood in its political, social, military, and ideological contexts.